On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Nick Kew wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Paul Querna wrote: > > > > Just sets the root server's docroot then now. Not being able able to > > > manipulate the document_root is a rather severe limitation as far as I am > > > concerned. > > > > I agree. But to fix it properly, we need a different system for doing > > configuration stuff. The current system is just no good for doing stuff > > on demand/on request. > > Huh? Why is this a problem? A module might just have a legitimate > reason to change document_root at post_config. But to do so anywhere > within a request is nonsense: by all means set file paths (c.f. Alias, > etc), but don't call it document root.
Nobody is saying anything about doing it anywhere within a request. obviously you can't change the doc_root after the fact, but I see no reason to not be able to do it prior to each request in the filename translation hook so other hooks which use the doc_root will function correctly. -Rasmus
